Finger-ring.



No. 685,947. Patented Nov. 5, |901. J. SAVA.

'FINGER RING.

(Application me@ July 9, 1901,)

( Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH SAVA, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

FINGER-RING.

SPECIFICATION 'forming part of Letters Patent No. 68 5,947, dated November 5, 1901.

Applicationled July 9, 1901. Serial No. 67,619. (Model.)

T0 @ZZ whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, JOSEPH SAVA, a subject of the King of Italy, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented a new and usefullmprovement in FingerRings, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to improvements in finger-rings, and more especially to the class known as wedding-rings; and the object is to provide a ring ornamental in appearance, novel in construction, and so built up of a series of links as to form a broad band with a crest which constitutes a clasp portion.

A further object is to provide such a ring by employing a series of links which are so woven together as to form a smooth band of the desired width, the separate links being closely interwoven by the arrangement of the curves and channels in said separate links.

A still further object is to provide a fingerring having a slide portion and a clasp portion which when united will present the appearance of two clasped hands.

These objects I attain by constructing a ring in accordance with the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is a side view of my ring with all the link members united, showing the smooth circular outlines. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of same. Fig. 3 is a view of the device when the clasps have been disengaged and the link members extended to form a chain or fob. Fig. 4 is an inverted plan view of the completed ring, showing how the link members are interwoven. Fig. 5 is a detail view in perspective of one of the outer link members. Fig. 6 is an edge view of same, showing more clearly the curved channel portion and indieating by dotted lines how the next link member is fitted in place. Fig. 7 is an edge view of one of the intermediate link members.

Similar characters of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

The ring, as shown in Figs. l, 2, and 4, is composed of a series of link members a b c d c, cach member being circular in form and so linked together as to form when unclasped a chain or fob, as shown in Fig. 3. The linka is provided with an overlapping slide portion 10, which is wide enough to extendA over the remaining link members, and this overlapping slide portion 10 is formed integrally with the link member t and is preferably so designed as to represent a human hand with extended fingers, which when the links are assembled rests in a clasp portion 1l, formed on the link member c, as shown in Fig. 2. Member a is further provided, as at 12, with a curved channel 13, which iits snugly in the curved channel 14 of the member b, as shown by the dotted lines of Fig. 6, and in said member l), adjacent to channel 14, is formed a similar channel 15 to receive the next intermediate member c. Member c is provided with channels 14' 15', and the member d has channels 142 152, which in structural formation are identical with channels 14 15 in member l?, already described. The link member c is provided with a curved channel 13', similar to channel 13 in link member d, which ts around the curved channel portion 152 of member cl, and by means of these curves and channels a series of locking recesses are formed for securing all the link members where they are interwoven when formed into a ring, as shown at 16 in Fig. 4. The slide portion 10 on link a is shown as representing a human hand with extended fingers 17, which are designed to slide over the clasp portion 11 of link e, where it is held in place from lat-eral movement by the thumb and finger projections 1S.

In constructing this ring I have formed it of tive link members, all united, as shown* twoouter members, provided with interlocking clasp and slide portions, and three intermediate 1nembersall of which have curved channels formed therein, so they may be closely interwoven and locked in position.

It is obvious that a greater number of links may be used in constructing this ring and that the slide and clasp portions may be modiiied as to design and ornamentation; but I prefer to construct it as illustrated.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Atinger-rngcomprisingouterlink members, provided with slide and clasp portions, and intermediate links having curved channel portions, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

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2. In a finger-ring, :L series of interwoven link members provided with enr-ved channels, the two .outer members being provided with crest, which constitutes :i clasp portion, substantially as specified.

3. A nger-ring composed of three or more link members loosely interwoven and interloeked so as to form a chain or fob when disengaged, and eomplemenbal clasp port-ions on [the outer link members, substantially as Io specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set Y my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH SAVA. Witnesses:

CHARLES I-I. BAKER, CLIFFORD K. BERRYMAN. 

